The Revelation Of Jack The Ripper
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Winner! Must Read! How could a perfectly normal, upper-middle-class father become the Whitechapel fiend? Why did the carnage begin? Why did it stop? Jack tells the tale himself in this provocative novel.
The events described in the book are one hundred percent accurate in regard to all the known facts of the case. A case that for over a century has been meticulously researched but during which surprisingly little
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KNUCKLE DOWN: A CAGE LIFE NOVEL
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Suspense Winner! When mixed martial artist Mickey Watts returns to New York after three years in exile, he just wants to forget his bloody days with the mob and do what he does best -- fight. But when his ex-fiancee is threatened by the same vicious gangsters that ran him out of town, he gets a chance not only to win her back but to settle some
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Zimbabwe Hustle
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Action Winner! If crime is like artwork, these two are finger painters.Big-game hunting guide Gabriel McCollough's business just dried up. One of his clients killed a famously photogenic lion, creating an outcry around the world and driving the man into hiding. Now, not even the wealthiest hunter would dare to hire Gabriel to guide a hunt for fear of becoming a social pariah.McCollough's nephew, a failed Hollywood
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Sinner’s Cross
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Historical Fiction Winner! In 1944, Sinner's Cross was just a point on a map: a muddy track through shell-torn German woods. Worthless...except to the brass on both sides of the war, who are willing to sacrifice their best men to have it. Men like Halleck, a tough-as-nails Texan who traded driving cattle for driving soldiers; Breese, a phenomenal actor who can play any part but hero; and Zenger,
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Honest John Raises Cain
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Mystery Winner! With an intellect as sharp as his right cross, Honest John Churchfield is the second-best detective in 1890s London. Unfortunately, Sherlock Holmes casts an enormous shadow.
The first Honest John Churchfield novel, Honest John Raises Cain chronicles Churchfield’s investigation into the disappearance of Lowry Cain, a famous musician with a crippling opium addiction. Cain’s wife Lily, an aspiring singer herself, hires Churchfield to find her husband and
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Loons
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Mainstream Winner! In 1934, Megan Kinkade, is put on a train bound for Maine to live with her estranged father after her mother dies. Though Megan has mixed feelings about her father, she’s grateful to escape the overcrowded orphanage.
Megan soon discovers that her father, whom she supposed to be a respected and wealthy doctor, operates an insane asylum out of an old mansion.
Megan’s new life becomes anything but
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Titanborn
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Science Fiction Winner! Titan's rebellion is coming. Only one man can stop it. Malcolm Graves is a Collector. The best there is. He's spent a lifetime putting down riots and chasing wanted offworlders across the solar-system for Pervenio Corporation. So long as the pay is right, he's the man for the job.He never bothers asking questions. And he always works alone.But after the high-profile bombing of Earth's capital, everything
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The Girl in the Mirror
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Paranormal Winner! When you look in the mirror and see a ghost, that’s a bad day.
While renovating an old house with her ex-husband, Sarah Greene finds a mirror that holds the spirit of a dead girl. As she learns more about the people who built Casa Abrigo—and about their demon-worshipping son—Sarah comes to believe the girl did not die a natural death, and she sets out to discover
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Rise of the Forgotten Sun
🏆 2019 Fantasy Winner! All Aydiin ever wanted was to see the world and maybe discover an ancient civilization or two. A life of scholarly solitude and adventure was more than enough for him. He never wanted to play politics. He never wanted to get married. He most certainly never dreamed of becoming a god.
Yet when he ventured into the depths of the Soulless Desert, he found... something- a power so
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Kindred Spirits
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Novella Winner! Topher and Skibby are well on their way to freedom after a desperate escape from their ancient cotton plantation—until catastrophe strikes. What begins as a journey of hope and optimism quickly turns to disaster as their chance at freedom disintegrates into a choice between slavery or death … until the timely intervention of a Seminole war party separates the brothers and triggers a chain of events
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Labyrinth
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Poetry Winner! Labyrinth is a collection of poetry that illustrates Black masculinity through lenses of identity, vulnerability, heritage, and resilience. Accompanied by captivating images of the Scottish island of Iona, the anthology uses the theme of pilgrimage to present a lyrical portrait on the Black male experience in America.“Thank you to the Best Indie Book Awards for this incredible honor. I am humbly proud to have received such
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Scavenged
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Young Adult Winner! The year is 2032. In the wake of a catastrophic alien invasion, mankind has been reduced to a race of slaves. When Orion Danes is abducted and cruelly experimented upon by the sinister alien race known as the Greys, he is given powerful but horrifying cybernetic augmentations that transform him into a killing machine. Now finding himself on the outermost fringe of the world of
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The Way to Be From A To Z
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Children's Winner! Whooo do you want to be when you grow up? This is a far more important question than what do you want to be when you grow up. The kind of person you want to be as an adult takes root now, while you are growing. As you read The Way to Be From A to Z, you will see how easy it is to
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Our Prince of Scribes
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Tribute Winner! New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945–2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more loyal to him and more committed to sustaining his literary legacy than the many writers he nurtured over the course of his fifty-year writing life. In sharing their stories of Conroy, his fellow writers honor his memory and advance our shared understanding of
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A Mark On My Soul
🏆 2019 BIBA™ LGBTQ Winner! Noah Andrews hates to lie, but that’s exactly what his life is. One big lie.At least that’s how he feels as a nerdy, closeted, gay high school senior in a suburban North Carolina town.But after months of fretting and hiding behind his quotes, Noah finally does it. He comes out to the world and realizes he had nothing to fear after all. With his lies behind
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Playing With Fire
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Romance Winner! A frightening chain reaction begins during a four-alarm for firefighter Sera Cardoso. The tattoo decorating her chest warns her away from danger, but this time is different. Visions in the flames of a handsome stranger with whiskey-colored eyes haunt her. Later, when her punching bag smolders and the water in her shower turns to steam, Sera unwittingly breaches a divide between her world and a magical
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Stealing Cinderella
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Memoir Winner! “I’m used to being excluded and feeling unwelcome. I’ve been a hoodlum my whole life. They want to tell me I’m stealing her? F*ck it. Okay, I’m stealing her.”
--Mark D. Diehl, South Korea, 1994
I showed up in South Korea with $20 and a dubious offer to teach English. Jennifer was the wickedly smart, fiercely independent second daughter of one of Korea's most influential families. We fell
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Child of the Forest
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Non-Fiction Winner! Escaping the Horochów ghetto was just the beginning for twelve‑year‑old Musia Perlmutter. Alone, starving, freezing at times, and running and hiding for her life, Musia sought refuge in the forest for two years while Holocaust death camps loomed nearby. Child of the Forest is based on the true story and tribulations of Shulamit “Musia” Perlmutter, born in 1929 to Simcha and Fruma Perlmutter, and stands
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Value Trap
Wall Street doesn't know it has a problem. Index and quantitative investors have been free-riding on the backs of active managers for years, but growth in price-agnostic trading may finally have reached the tipping point. Brian Nelson, former Director of Methodology at Morningstar and President of Investment Research at Valuentum, explains how enterprise valuation forms the Theory of Universal Valuation and why a focus on it may not only help
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Your Precious Sight
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Health Winner! Did you know that the only way to detect insidious eye diseases in the early stage, a crucial step in preventing the loss of eyesight, is through a regular comprehensive eye exam?Your Precious Sight is written by optometrist Dr. Eichin Chang-Lim. In this book, she shares the most memorable cases in her decades of being an eye doctor in an easy-to-read, insightful style.The stories span pediatrics
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A Glossary of Life
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Self-Help Winner! Truth cannot be created... it can only be discovered. Throughout human history, timeless truths about life, death, and meaning have echoed from enlightened teachers and have been captured in ancient texts. But over the passage of time, shifting sands of language and culture have concealed much of that wisdom. A Glossary of Life is a short book that reconnects humanity to ancient truths by retelling them
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The Complete Christian Pilgrim
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Christian Winner!The Complete Christian Pilgrim is a traveler's guide to 250 of the most sacred and historic Christian sites around the world. It is based on the many years of travel and research of the author. Representing the Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican denominations and beyond, these destinations encompass more than two thousand years of the Christian experience, from the ancient churches of the Holy Land to
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Kind Soup
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Christian Children’s Winner!Soup made with fruit? Yes, please!Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control--it's these traditional Fruits of the Spirit that Kate and her Mom are cooking up in the kitchen today. An ordinary day in the kitchen turns into a celebration of the extraordinary gifts that Jesus offers not just to Kate and her mom, but to all of us as well. Kind
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Seven Stupid Things People Do to Mess Up Their Lives
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Christian Self-Help Winner! You don’t have to be stupid to make stupid mistakes—some of the brightest minds in history have done horrible things and then had to live with the consequences. Wouldn’t it be great if you knew someone wise enough to guide you away from thoughtless acts and toward a better life?
Dr. Beau Adams, pastor of Community Bible Church, has access to just such a man—and so
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Feral Claws
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Cover Design Winner! Laura Prevost LJP Designs is a small studio in upstate New York dedicated to helping indie authors self-publish with success. I love books, and my mission is to help your work reach the audience it deserves. Here at LJP Graphic Design we understand the expense of indie publishing and want to aid in making that less stressful through reasonable pricing and payment options custom-tailored to your
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Lightning Bug Lights
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Illustration Winner! Stefan Motmans (STEMO) Born with a passion for the visual arts in the broadest form. As a teenager, he already made several short films and made his debut as a fully-fledged filmmaker in 2009 with the feature “The Walls Have Eyes”.In recent years, he has been working hard on his own graphic novel, designing t-shirts and movie posters for various filmmakers, doing concept art for
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Carefree, Like Me! Chapter 2: Sacra the Joyous
🏆 2019 BIBA™ Illustration Winner!
Author/illustrator Rashad Malik Davis can most often be found sketching, writing, or engaging in excited dialogue about the magic and beauty both seen and unseen in our diverse world. Though this is his first picture book written and illustrated on his own, he has illustrated for a #1 best selling children s book on Amazon entitled Sunne s Gift: How Sunne Overcame Bullying to Reclaim
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2019 BIBA® Literary Award Winners
Congratulations to our 2019 Best Indie Book Award® Winners!
We want to thank all of the fine self-published authors, designers, and illustrators that joined in our literary award, cover design, and Illustration contest this year. The entrants were all amazing.
And while we want to congratulate every one of the entrants, there can be only one winner per category. So here they are:
